Tim Hurson

"Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will do the job almost as well."

"But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much to improve it. If you're interested in change, you need to develop a sense of possi…"

"Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past."

"In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implem…"

"As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them."

"Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so."

"No matter how dysfunctional the present, no matter how sensible the reasons for change, most people and organizations would rather wring out the old than ring in the new."

"When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face…"